Category: epic road trip 2010
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Beautiful Thieves
We are back in VA on our last day of the Epic road trip. We stopped in Raleigh, NC to have a sushi lunch with Cristina, a old friend from HS. (Haven’t seen her in 7 years!!) It was great seeing her and we had some fantastic sushi at a place called Sono. It’s been…
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Two Pina Coladas
One of our main stops of the trips was in Charlotte, NC to see our friend Alli. I’ve never been to Charlotte, or anywhere in North Carolina for that matter, so I’m happy that I was finally able to visit the place. Her dog of the same name is awesome! We got to see some…
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Life is a Highway
Since we took our sweet time in Talladega, we had to haul it to get to our friend Alli’s house in the evening when she was expecting us. We got to drive through downtown Atlanta, which is a much bigger city than I realized. Driving past the Olympic rings and Centennial Park was very cool.…
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I wanna go fast!
Well, on our way to Atlanta we decided to take a “quick” detour off I20 and visit the Talladega Superspeedway. Talladega is the infamous racetrack from the movie “Talladega Nights” so we wanted to see if we could locate Ricky Bobby. We had no luck finding him (he may have been running around “on fire”…
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Mississippi Dreamin’
Just passed by downtown Jackson, Mississippi on our way to Alabama. We have been blessed with great weather (70’s and sunny) and we are making great time! We have passed back over the Mississippi River again, but this time in daylight. It’s a huge river! We saw a plane logo printed on the highway- neither…
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The Saints are coming
We just left our first stop of the day in Shreveport, Louisiana headed east on I-20. Ryan’s mom lived in a house there back when she was in grade school so we swung by and took a couple pictures of the house. In addition, we were lucky enough to see a riverboat gambling boat docked…
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This too shall pass
Well it’s time for Ryan and I to start heading back east. Every night till we return on Tuesday evening will be spent in a different state. Currently, we are headed to a lake outside Tyler, TX to spend the night before we head to Alabama tomorrow morning. It’s 60 degrees out and sunny- as…
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First in the pool
The “First in the Pool” title has been claimed this year by Ryan and I. We braved the 60 degree water to be the first ones in his Grandpa’s pool- it is a big deal in Ryan’s family to have that honor. The water was quite frigid, considering it was really windy today, but my…
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BBQ, Bombs, Bears and a fort
We are Fort Worth right now after making a day trip visit to see the Fort Worth Stockyards, eat some BBQ at Angelo’s, and check out the Omaha Army Surplus store. After getting a little bit of a late start out to Fort Worth this morning, we passed Six Flags and Ripley’s Believe it or…
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Burgers and Garage Sales
There is a GQ article out there Top 20 burgers to eat before you die and we ate at #10 today for lunch- Keller’s drive in in Dallas, Texas. We had the double cheeseburger- it was an amazing burger! The atmosphere is just like the article says- its a total dive and a place that…
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Arkansas Tornado
Last night, in our drive through the crazy thunderstorm to Texas, apparently there was a tornado touchdown outside Little Rock, AK. as well as Alabama. That is definitely a interesting factoid to hear this morning when we ate breakfast at Aunt Debbie’s house (Ryan’s aunt). I’m kinda bummed (only a little) that I didn’t get…
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Friends in low places
It’s 1AM central time and Ryan and I are finally winding down from a long day. 780 miles of driving total, 1,500+ miles total driving over the last two days. We have reached Plano, Texas and our blog’s reputation has gotten there before us! We spent the drive from Little Rock, AK to Dallas/Plano, TX…
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When Doves Cry (80’s flashback)
Ryan and I are now officially west of the great Mississippi River in Arkansas on I-40 headed west. We still have quite a ways to go before we call it a night tonight- we will be sleeping somewhere in Texas tonight. To make the drive go by faster we turned on the “big 80’s” channel…
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Kings and Queens
Last night was another night of fitful sleep- even know it was only 7 hours, I was barely able to get to sleep for a long period of time. On a interesting sidenote, I did have a dream last night that I met the Queen of England (which is apparently on my bucket list) and…
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Firing your GPS
Well, after we decided to bring out Lloyd to guide us today, he began to crack under the pressure of guiding us. After he routed us down a dirt road (which we think was supposed to be a shortcut) in the middle of nowhere, TN- we decided to fire him for the rest of the…
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